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JUL 2012

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DATE THOUGHT OF THE DAY 7/1/12      "We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it." - William Faulkner 7/2/12      "Live so that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip." - Will Rogers 7/3/12      "If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe."- Carl Sagan 7/4/12      "Those who won our independence believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty." - Louis D. Brandeis 7/5/12      "Greatness is not measured by what a man or woman accomplishes, but by the opposition he or she has overcome to reach his goals." - Dorothy Height 7/6/12      "Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins." - Edith Wharton 7/7/12      "The most dangerous thing about power is to employ it where it is not applicable." - David Halberstam 7/8/12      "We must become the change we want to see." - Mahatma Gandhi 7/9/12      "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do." - Walter Bagehat 7/10/12      "Technology, the knack of so arranging the world so that we don't have to experience it." - Max Frisch 7/11/12      "I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite." - Bertrand Russell 7/12/12      "Loyalty to a petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul." - Mark Twain 7/13/12      "The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution." - Hannah Arendt 7/14/12      "This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer." - Will Rogers 7/15/12      "The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it." - Albert Einstein 7/16/12      "Good can imagine Evil, but Evil cannot imagine Good." - W. H. Auden 7/17/12      "We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be." - Kurt Vonnegut 7/18/12      "No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session." - Mark Twain 7/19/12      "The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil." - Hannah Arendt 7/20/12      "All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another." - Anatole France 7/21/12      "A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says 'I was beaten,' he does not say 'My men were beaten'. " - Antoine de Saint-Exupery 7/22/12      "What is the meaning of life? To be happy and useful." - Tenzin Gyatso 7/23/12      "You don't lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case." - Ken Kesey 7/24/12      "We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 7/25/12      "Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Do not bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself." - William Faulkner 7/26/12      "It is as impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning." - Agnes Repplier 7/27/12      "Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the action stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living." - Anais Nin 7/28/12      "Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change." - Stephen Hawking 7/29/12      "A smiling face is half the meal." - Latvian proverb 7/30/12      "The man who can speak acceptably is usually given credit for an ability out of all proportion to what he really possesses." - Lowell Thomas 7/31/12      "Hearts will never be practical until they can be made unbreakable." - L. Frank Baum

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